thunderbird 3b4 accounts problem

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
>> And, by the way, does TB 3b4 work fine with the IMAP protocol?
>>
>  Summary
>   Imap is fine.
>   Turn of global indexing.
>   Choose which folders you want tb to store for itself - it stores them
> all by default.
>
>  Details.
>
>  Imap works yes - tho I have heard of some with problems - I have found
> there seem to be some nasty quirks/bugs associated with GLODA - I turn
> it off on all my computers (Preferences->Advances->Enable Global Search).
>
>  I have found the indexing either messes up or never completes (after
> 11 hours on x64 anyway) - it slows things down and I have no interest in
> co-mingling my searches across email accounts. - so the design idea is
> just silly IMHO. (I am not a fan of smart folders for similar reasons).
>
>  Also, GLODA demands a local (thunderbird stored mbox format ugh) copy
> of all mail. You will need to go through carefully and deslect any
> folders (one by one sadly) you dont want duplicate copies stored by
> thunderbird.
>
>  Since I keep copies of whatever I want on a local imap server for my
> local storage (so I am indifferent to mail client) I have zero interest
> in yet another copy of all my emails and saved emails stored in a slow,
> bad, buggy format which requires me to keep pressing compact every other
> day. While my laptop drive is large, another 5 GiB of duplicate copies
> is silly as well.
>
>
>  I have also switched to using the 32 bit version on my x86_64 installs
> - in fact I am now using the nightly build of 3.0pre from mozilla.org.
> Tho I am not 100% convinced there are 64 bit problems or not - and the
> TB devs dont seem sure if there are or are not either.

Thank you very much indeed for your detailed reply!

Paul